West Columbia City Council moved to help make a crosswalk on Sunset Boulevard a reality, at its meeting on Aug. 2. Council voted to accept $45,000 in “C” Funds from Lexington County that authorizes “the City Administrator to negotiate a contract agreement with the House of Raeford.” The move also authorizes “the city to manage the […]

The West Columbia Police Department extended the hours until 10 p.m. for Pokè Monday at the West Columbia Riverwalk Amphitheater every Monday. It looks like more than 20 showed up to play. “We wanted to extend park hours on this special night to assist people in capturing the elusive monsters they can only get at […]

A Lexington County Detention Center inmate died overnight in a cell. The inmate was found unresponsive this morning about 5:30.  The State Law Enforcement Division and the Lexington County Coroner’s Office are conducting an investigation into the incident. Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher identified the inmate who was found unresponsive as William Dantzler Day, III, 43, of […]

Units from the West Columbia Police Department, Lexington County Sheriff’s Department (including a Crime Scene truck) and the SC Highway Patrol, were on Wade Street Sunday night. There was also a car in the middle of Wade Street near the incident. Capt. Adam Myrick – public information officer for the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department said: “We’re […]

High School football season is getting closer, and that includes action for Brookland-Cayce and Airport High Schools of Lexington School District 2. Airport will play Lexington and Brookland-Cayce plays Blythewood in an upcoming jamboree. As a prelude to the season, the 2016 Aun and McKay Kickoff Classic jamboree is scheduled in Chapin, Saturday Aug. 13.  The […]

The S.C. Highway Patrol is reporting that a pedestrian was killed in a vehicle vs pedestrian accident Saturday night. Lance Cpl. Judd Jones of the SCHP said the driver of a 2011 Chevrolet SUV hit a killed a person walking in the road in an east direction. The SUV was also travelling east. The incident […]

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the two individuals who were killed in a three-vehicle accident at approximately 3:25 AM on Saturday, August 6, 2016, at I-20 near the 62 mile marker in Lexington, as Franchescha Hope Rogers-Martinez, age 27, of Lexington, and Jarrad Denard Blade, 32, of Decatur, Georgia. Ms. Rogers-Martinez was traveling alone […]